I could sort of see it if he'd been made into a laughing stock (say, it was "Techno-Palin", instead).... But not for this.

Somebody explain.

Not everyone wants to be famous. I know I don't. And if I do become famous because of my awesomeness I would like to be the one making a career out of it - not some random blogger who built himself a speaking gig from my awesomeness.

If you look at other pictures of that guy, they really don't resemble one another. Also, I think that I read somewhere the show that clip is from just found a dude that vaguely resembled the real Technoviking as a sort of joke.

I could sort of see it if he'd been made into a laughing stock (say, it was "Techno-Palin", instead).... But not for this.

Somebody explain.

I think the issue is less his degree of fame, and more the fact that this dude Fritsch and others profited off of his image, and he never saw a dime from it. Either that or the notoriety is causing him personal problems, like it did for Star Wars Kid.

I could sort of see it if he'd been made into a laughing stock (say, it was "Techno-Palin", instead).... But not for this.

Somebody explain.

Not everyone wants to be famous. I know I don't. And if I do become famous because of my awesomeness I would like to be the one making a career out of it - not some random blogger who built himself a speaking gig from my awesomeness.

While I can sort of see that, he was out in public, doing things that would draw attention to himself.

And it's an overstatement to say, "random blogger who built himself a speaking gig"... He's a guy who studies memes, and happened to create one himself. It wasn't his intent to profit (which is very big in courts. Intent, that is.).

I agree, fame can be a pain. I am ~very~ (probably ~extremely~ is better there) minorly internet famous. I qualify that statement with, I appear by my real name on TVTropes, in a popular fiction series, and in writing credits for a handful of things (including something that was translated to Portuguese, and I wasn't aware of it until 2 years after the fact). The middle one has caused some booksellers, when I hand over a payment card, to question whether or not I'm really me, or using an "obviously" fake name. It's also caused a few coworkers, who have read that series, to occasionally mock me.

I suppose, in my case, I knew what I was getting into when I did the things that caused this. And one could argue that TV didn't.

But... anyone who does something "interesting" could be in the same position. You don't automatically own all rights to everything you do, especially in a public forum.